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With the release of Microsoft Windows 2008 server, new features have appeared in the operating system and Active Directory. One new feature that will probably come back to bite us, from an Identity Manager perspective, is a new feature of the Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management Console (ADUC MMC) snapin. Here's the scoop on the new option to "Protect container from accidental deletion."

Here's part 3 of the Guided Tour of Novell Identity Manager article, by dgersic. You'll learn about Rules, Conditions, Actions, Associations, Synthetic Adds, and Merge Operations.

An introductory guided tour of Novell's Identity Manager (part 1 of 3).

When I first started working with DirXML (now called Identity Manager), one of the things that I found difficult was understanding what went where, and why. Some years later, I still see this as a weakness of the documentation. So, in an effort to make Identity Manager (hereafter abbreviated as IDM) a bit easier to learn, here is a guided tour.

Out of the box there are a number of really interesting schema syntaxes in Novell eDirectory available that we can use. Many of them we are familiar with and some of them are used in the background and we do not see them, but they are used all over the place.

The standard IDM v3.5.1 AD driver provides support for mail enabling AD users by populating the mailNickname and homeMDB attributes. On larger Exchange 2007 systems, there may be up to 50 message stores per server to choose from. This article explores ways of load balancing users across the available message stores.

Novell Identity Manager has a powerful tracing mechanism that can be used to track most of what is happening behind the scenes in your IDM implementation. To tap into that capability is very simple, and can be a valuable resource during development of the driver and also to troubleshoot issues in production.

If you have read any of my other articles you will know that I am a very big proponent of using the Comments fields wherever you can. That means when you write a rule in Identity Manager you should explain what the rule is doing, more importantly why you are doing it, and most importantly what you tried before that did not work.

Mike Faris shares a new step-by-step guide on how to migrate a server from NetWare to OES2 Linux. Check it out.

Java-based error codes from eDirectory events can be misleading. Geoff Carman takes a look at some of the more common ones and how to deal with them.